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PRIVACY POLICY COOKIES AND DATA PROTECTION

Privacy Policy

Legal Spiel understands that your privacy is important. As such, we will only collect information which we need in order to maximise the service we provide. There are a few ways in which information may be collected by us including where information is requested through the site including any forms you fill out and/or products and services you order through our site.

We also collect information sporadically on how users use our site such as looking at IP addresses to decipher how many users there are or through tracking unique views of our site. Cookies will be employed by us to provide the most optimal service to you. Although every piece of information you enter on our site cannot be used to identify you, they would all be coming from an identifiable IP address.

We may contact you through information you provide in registration for our site when offering products or services we feel you may be interested in. We use information collected on our website to create the most effective service by analysing research taken as well as helping to judge the effectiveness of advertising and marketing efforts by Legal Spiel. We may change our privacy policy at any time without prior notice and it is the responsibility of the user to keep abreast of any changes. Use of site constitutes acceptance of terms.

Use of Cookies and Server Logs

In order to offer the best service Legal Spiel uses cookies within the site. Server logs are kept and can be used for analysis for the purpose of making the site better. We may on occasion collect other analytical information from the site and are not limited to any specific collection listed herein.

Legal Spiel’s privacy policy is subject to change at any time without prior notice and use of this site confirms consent.

Legal Spiel. and its affiliates (collectively, “Legal Spiel “we” or “us”) respect your personal privacy and are committed to adhering to European and national privacy and data protection laws and industry guidelines in order to protect you and your identity. Legal Spiel does not sell or provide your data to any third party vendors. Information is used solely by Legal Spiel as needed. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how we handle the personal information of users of Legal, Legal Spiel, and related services (the “Legal Spiel Service”).

If you are unwilling to accept the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, we ask that you do not use the Legal Spiel Service. By using the Legal Spiel Service, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. When you submit information via the Legal Spiel Service, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Legal Spiel reserves the right to occasionally update this Privacy Policy. At such time, Legal Spiel will also revise the “last updated” date at the end of the Privacy Policy. For material changes to this Privacy Policy, Legal Spiel will notify you by placing a prominent notice on the website. We recommend that you periodically review this Privacy Policy.

INFORMATION LEGAL SPIEL COLLECTS FROM YOU

Registration and Profile Information

As part of the registration process, you will be asked to provide information including an e-mail address, your name, one or more contact phone numbers and contact information for your designated recipients. From time-to-time, the Legal Spiel Service may include functionality that permits you to provide profile information that may be accessible by recipients that you designate and applicable emergency responders.

When you use the Legal Spiel Service, we will not collect any personally identifiable information about you unless you provide it to us voluntarily. When you create your personal vault of information, you will be asked for both personal and demographic information, some of which is required in order to complete the registration. We will inform you which information is optional.

Incident Information

When you use the Legal Spiel Service to transmit any information (including video, audio, text and other data), Legal Spiel will collect such information.

Passive Information Collection

As you navigate through a web site component of the Legal Spiel Service, certain information can be passively collected (that is, gathered without you actively providing the information) using various technologies, such as navigational data collection. For example, when using the Legal Spiel Service, we and/or our service providers may track Internet Protocol addresses, use session and persistent cookies, use session IDs and assign Internet tags.

Our system may also automatically gather information about the areas you visit on the Legal Spiel Service and collect operational information about the technology you use, such as your browser, operating systems, IP address, system and application software, peripherals, Internet service providers and the domain name of the web site from which you linked to the Legal Spiel Service. In addition, when you view the site, we may store some information on your computer or mobile device. This information will be in the form of a cookie, flash cookie or similar file and will help us in many ways.

We reserve the right to use, and to permit our service providers to use, such cookies, flash cookies and web beacons, as well as other comparable or future technologies, to collect information regarding usage of the Legal Spiel Service or our applications (including use of our applications on third party sites). We passively collect information to understand what areas of the site are most popular, which areas may require improvement and what technologies are being used by our visitors. This information helps us to update and improve the site. We also use this information for security purposes, to detect and to block security breaches and to provide you with a safe online environment.

HOW THE COMPANY MAY USE AND DISCLOSE INFORMATION OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICE

Your contact information (e.g., e-mail addresses, phone number) will only be used for the purposes for which you supplied it to us (e.g., responding to your comments or requests for information, sending requested newsletters, etc.). Except as otherwise stated, we may use information collected internally to operate the services described on the site, to improve the service, to customize to your preferences, to communicate information to you, for research purposes and for any other purpose specified in this policy. In addition, we may make full use of all information acquired through the site that is not in personally identifiable form.

Other Disclosures: In addition to the disclosure of your information to recipients and responders as described above, we may disclose any of the information you provide:
To contractors we use to support our business (such as hosting providers, technical support, web analytics and financial institutions), in which case we will require such third parties to agree to use it for the same purposes;

In the event of a sale, merger, liquidation, dissolution, reorganization, assignment or other transfer of Legal Spiel or the business of the Legal Spiel Service to which the information relates, in which case we will require any such buyer to agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy and use it for the same purposes;
To respond to law enforcement requests and subpoenas, where we believe in good faith that such response is required by applicable laws, court orders, or government regulations; and
In situations involving threats to the physical safety of any person.

Legal Spiel does not otherwise distribute to third parties your personally identifiable information.

Legal Spiel may de-identify and aggregate your personal information (including, without limitation, usage statistics) with information from other users of the Legal Spiel Service. Legal Spiel may use or disclose such aggregated information for purposes of operating, modifying, improving, promoting or otherwise commercializing the Legal Spiel Service or the aggregate data, but in no event shall such aggregated information include any personally identifying information.

GDPR compliance:

There is a commitment to compliance with the GDPR across the entire company and all of its partners.

The company has audited all information and know where it is held, what is held, where the data comes from and where it might go. This allows us to track all data and will ensure that your data will be protected. A data protection officer has been appointed and can be contacted on the following email: info@LegalSpiel.com
You have a right to request a copy of your information at any time and ask to have any or all of it removed from our system.
Basis and consent

By signing up to Legal Spiel you are entering into an agreement which gives us the legitimate basis to process your data, in line with GDPR requirements. In order to provide a service to you we need to have certain data from you as requested and will need your consent to hold and process this information, which will include it being able to be accessed by third parties within our site who have also confirmed that they will comply with GDPR requirements.
Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to see a full copy of any data we hold about you, and also the right to request that it is fully deleted from our system.
This is also true for the data you hold about your other person that you find through the Legal Spiel platform - you must confirm that you are adhering to GDPR requirements by safely storing any information you download on any other person on this platform, including but not limited to CVs. You confirm that any information you download on another Legal Spiel member will be kept in compliance with GDPR.

Use of this site

You confirm that you are adhering to the GDPR in your own right when you continue to use the platform and if you are not in compliance you must not use the platform to contact or find any other member. Continued use of the Legal Spiel site confirms your adherence and acceptance to this requirement.